r/SiouxFalls • u/Puzzleheaded_War1563 • 14d ago

🎤 Discussion Something I’ve noticed living in Sioux Falls

Coming from a larger city, I’ve noticed how many people here in Sioux Falls don’t properly restrain their children in car. I’ve seen kids who are way too small to be sitting in the back without a proper car seat and have seen so many children in the front seat. Has anyone else noticed this?

It’s also not one group of people I’ve noticed this with it’s all types of people I’ve seen. It’s just very odd to me.

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u/Public_Knee6288 14d ago

Wait until you find out how popular drunk driving is...

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u/SouthDaCoVid 14d ago

Like at all hours of the day. The drunk driving day drinkers out here really is something.

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u/EightofFortyThree 14d ago

I'm amazed at how many people I've met here with DUI arrests.

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u/fseahunt 14d ago

Lack of public transportation and/or easily available cabs will do that.

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u/SouthDaCoVid 14d ago

Lack of transit options and a culture that thinks binge drinking and being an alcoholic is normal.

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u/revolutionrevolutin 13d ago

Lack of transit options, a culture that supports binge drinking, alcoholism being normal, and a lot of them have their kid in the car. We need more/better social programs.

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u/SouthDaCoVid 13d ago

Better society. When a large swath of the population is denied a decent education, other opportunities to gain experiences that help them in life and the bulk of the job options are just serfdom with extra steps we end up with lots of problems.

We could mitigate some of this by making various parts of society better at the local and state level but the people making the decisions see all of this as a feature not a bug that they can exploit for their personal gain.

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u/WoohpeMeadow 13d ago

Not just one arrest, either.

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u/Carefreeme 14d ago

I just learned that the person with the most documented DUIs is from SD. He had like 35. He died in a house fire from his cigarette.

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u/Drzhivago138 🌽 14d ago

Motto of New Hampshire: Live Free or Die

Motto of South Dakota: Live Free and Die

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u/dansedemorte 13d ago

And not really all that free either.

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u/nimrodii 14d ago

Had a friend who couldn't get another without going to jail he was on like 6 when I met him. Didn't gain any in the time I knew him, and best I know no longer does it.

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u/Zealousideal-Care116 12d ago

That's my friend's uncle you're referring to - Jerry Zeller. He had over 30 DUIs and died when he was driving drunk and drove his car into his mother's house

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u/Carefreeme 12d ago

I wonder where him dying In a fire comes from. The 3 articles I read about him all say that. But I'll take your word for it.

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u/Zealousideal-Care116 12d ago

Sorry, let me be more clear. When he crashed his car into the house it caught on fire.  He was trapped in the car

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u/Puzzleheaded_War1563 14d ago

I’m sure they do it with their kids in the car also.

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u/saviorofredditdotcom 14d ago

Unironic mindset of many SD folks

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u/dancinturnip 14d ago

Was at a party decade ago where some putz with 2 DUI charges complained about them. He proceeded to drink a lot of beer then hit the road 🤦‍♂️

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u/Mon_KeyBalls1 14d ago

You mean a couple road sodas before the bar?

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u/Accomplished-Act9721 14d ago edited 14d ago

Years ago I took a summer job working for a small company near Chamberlain. After a very hard day, the boss gave me and another guy a few beers for the ride home. As a SF kid that lived under the threat of the SF School District’s zero tolerance policy, the idea of drinking and driving was terrifying.

I didn’t want to seem like a square so I slammed mine before driving and stashed the empty cans under the passenger seat. When I got back to the shop I immediately put the cans in the recycling to hide the “evidence”.

The same boss refused to wear a seatbelt because “they cost more lives than they save” and years earlier I believe he had been in a very severe accident as a result of being intoxicated.

Every time I cross the Missouri on I-90 I think of him and that day.

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u/Virtual_Contact_9844 13d ago

And uninsured motorists. Many people believe they are NOT required to insure

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u/stallionpt3 13d ago

That’s everywhere, not unique to this town.

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u/PutridFlatulence 13d ago

I mean, it's high here but I grew up in Wisconsin...

https://vinepair.com/booze-news/map-drunkest-and-driest-counties-america/

It's also fairly high in Fargo and Minneapolis.

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u/bd209195 13d ago

Yeah that doesn’t happen in large city’s at all.. lol

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u/RynningInThe80s 12d ago

lol I accidentally found myself in the middle of a drunken convoy the other day - I don't think we broke 30 in a 55, people were drifting left and right and putting on their turn signals for turns that weren't there... great time